we begin with a major earthquake triggered tsunami warnings across the south pacific tonight.

an 8.0 quake that centered in the solomon island about 50 miles west of the city of lata. there have been at least a dozen strong aftershocks. the pacific tsunami warning center measured waves as high as 3 feet. no reports of any major damage there. people in fiji and areas closer to the epicenter are told to head for higher ground. watches posted for parts of australia so. far, no word on whether any tsunamis have reached land. >> investigators are sifting through the rubble for clues in a deadly house fire. the flames were so intense the parents couldn't save their own children who were trapped inside. tonight, the community is coming together to help them keep going. erica gonzalez has the story from fred rimaryland. >> tonight their 8-year-old daughter remains in the hospital as the community comes together to try to do anything they can to help.

they came in droves. people dining at this frederick chick-fil-a in an effort to show some love for the family. >> how long will this go until? >> god only knows. 8:30. keep going until people quit coming. >> the family house burned fast and furious early friday morning. a fire so intense neighbors say it took less than 10 minutes for the whole structure to be consumed. >> probably -- this affect aed a lot of people. despite the best efforts. two sisters died. 6-year-old sophie and madigan. both parents and surviving children were taken to the hospital. >> every one of our moms would step up to support the moms in the community. because you never know it will be you that need lifted up >> tonight there were lines inside and out of the restaurant. >> i was in line i saw y'all. 45 minutes out of your vehicle. the line is longer than what it

was. >> community members donated clothes and cash to add to the night's proceeds. >> 25% of every meal. >> the story touched so many that very few of the thou sand who showed up, even knew the family. >> we can't do anything huge. we are frying to d trying to do help out. we hope over time, they will find their peace and comfort. >> in myersville, maryland, erica gonzalez, news 4. >> we just checked with d.c. fire. still not clear how this huge blaze started in southeast d.c. this morning. two people were found dead inside this rowhouse on r street. city officials tell us the property had been boarded up and nobody was supposed to be inside. no identifications have been made yet. >> the small group of protesters met d.c. mayor vincent gray outside his state of the district address tonight. their parents and children angry

over plans to close schools because of low enrollment. during his speech inside the historic synagogue, the mayor pra pra pra praised the city. he said the city is tackling the problem of cell phone thefts and the mayor pro posed spending $100 million to build affordable housing. >> a crash is leading to a law in virginia. takes aim at people who text while driving. shomari stone live with a closer look at possible changes. sto shomari stone? >> we see it on intersection, interstate. suvs, cars, people texting while driving. the commonwealth is one step closer to toughening the law. tonight one northern virginia family is happy, closer to making texting while driving a primary defense. authorities believe a man texting and driving hit and

killed their son on the side of road in herndon in 2011. >> it's nexting. not looking at the road while you are driving a car. which turns into a weapon. >> the senate and house passed identical bills that would allow police to pull you over and write a ticket for texting while driving. it is already a primary offense in maryland and d.c. this woman says the change is necessary. >> i believe it is a good thing. i tell my kids not to. my son is 19. my daughter is 17. i try to tell them to keep the phone away. >> she admits to sometimes doing it. >> the new law would raise the fine from $20 to $250 for the first offense. $500. for the second offense. and a $500 mandatory minimum fine if a driver is charged with reckless driving as a result of texting. >> i see a lot of people texting and driving. i try to use, talk to text. if i feel the urge. >> i think -- that whatever we can do to stop people from doing

it the beltt ear of we are. >> the law isn't going into effect yet. the governor would have to sign night law. if he does it could go into effect, july 1. live, maryfield, virginia. shomari stone, news 4. >> new questions about the pun,ment for a 10-year-old boy in alexandria. suspended after bringing a toy gun to the elementary school this morning. they found the toy gun in his backpack. the boy was taken to juvenile detention center and released earlier tonight. >> the search continues for a 6-year-old girl from north tooes d.c. thought. to be with her mother and man wanted by the police. the girl's name, ariana, her father eric told news 4 today that ariana was last seen thursday with her mother who was visiting from arkansas. eric thinks the mother came here with her boyfriend, a man wanted in arkansas for a felony probation violation.

>> my daughter is, is in a dangerous situation right now. she don't know anybody down there. >> daddy going to come get you. i promise. >> eric has been granted sole custody. temperature difference across our region. something else moving in. could create big problems end of the week. meteorologist, doug kammerer is watching it all. hey, doug. >> we talked about the temperature difference. some areas, 20 degrees colder than others during the day today. we have a mixture of rain and snow showers across the region the a lot of this not affecting to many people. winchester, clark county, virginia. loudon county. and reporting a little bit in the way of light sprinkle. light flurry activity. that is going to be it from the little system. the last in our series of clippers that have moved through. 30 degrees the temperature. gaithersburg. 37 in washington. and temperatures actually a little bit above where they

should be this time of year. good news if you are waking up tomorrow morning. maybe heading to the bus stop. cloud to start. little chilly side. temperatures, 26 to 32. sunrise at 7:09. a storm on the way. we will talk when the storm arrives. when it moves out. what comes next in the forecast. >> it is not unusual to see scalpers making money with police standing a few feet away. d.c.'s police chief admits it is a problem. now increasing enforcement, and cracking down on her officers because of what we uncovered. tisha thompson with the news 4 iteam undercover investigation. >> from sporting events. to sold out concerts. d.c. streets are often buzzing with monstrous crowd around the verizon center. sidewalks lined with fans, police, and these guys. >> scalpers, not hanging in the shadows. but right out in the open.

sometimes such gating you s si. at a sold out concert. multiple guys hit up our producer wearing a hidden america. even offering to escort him to his seats. >> it is illegal to sell, or even buy tickets on d.c. streets. something, alexis and gabby did not know. >> we are obsessed i guess you could say. >> these 15-year-old self proclaimed justin bieber fanatics gave a guy $500 for two tickets before his recent d.c. show started. until they tried to get inside the concert. >> she's like the tickets aren't real. they're counterfeit. >> distraught the teens approached a metro police department officer outside the center for help. something our cameras happened to catch that night. he was look no, i can't help you. that's illegal.

he is look i could arrest you right now for doing that. i was like there is people selling tickets all around the area. >> can you get in trouble for buying scalped tickets? >> you are not allowed to buy and sell in public space. >> not the appropriate answer for a 15-year-old girl who got ripped off. >> with officers on crowd control versus enforcement. she admits the officer approached should have taken action because scalping is a big problem. >> we send teams of officers out to -- to go after scalpers -- randomly. it is not at every single event. because i don't have the luxury. >> there is tons of cops. they weren't doing anything about it. >> we see the same thing at a recent hockey game. it is hard not to notice the scalpers hanging out on corners and metro exits. as we walk a single block, we are surrounded by not one. not two. but five different guys all at the same time.

pushing us to shell out some money. while officers stand nearby, or sit in their vehicles. >> if somebody sees that. an officer sitting there, complacent. not engaging in crowd management and scalping going on the officer doesn't take action. that is inappropriate. they have to take action. so that i would have a problem with. >> soon after our interview, mpd did, mpd did its own test and found some officers did not respond correctly to scalping complaints. we have also noticed mpd increased enforcement during the hockey game. any one caught selling or buying tickets on d.c. streets scan be fined $300. and face possible jail time. mpd says officers made 25 arrests last year. tisha thompson. news 4 iteam. >> women forced to the ground. pepper spray, shot throughout the store for the second night in a row. policen our area, need help,

finding jewelry store robbers. these guys rushed into colonial jewellers in fred wreck today. you can see two men stand over one woman while grabbing as much as they could carry. the crime is eerily similar to one in the pentagon city mall in arlington yesterday. it is not believed the two incidents are linked. no arrests have been made yet in either case. coming up tonight, dramatic new video. firefighters run for cover trying to put out the flames at an elementary school. see what started the fire >> new details are emerging after the daring rescue in alabama. why police saw from, what police saw from afar that forced them to move in and open fire. >> the power struggle in the super dome tonight we will tell you what we know about the blackout at the super bowl. and the

cameras captured a close call for firefighters in southern washington state. working to put out a fire at an elementary school. a blast of heat and embers sent crews running for cover. nobody was seriously hurt. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. tonight the fbi has release nude photos after the hostage standoff in midland, alabama that went on for a week. news sources say a fire fight erupted when swat teams stormed the bunker yesterday. rescuing a 5-year-old boy named ethan. the kidnapper, jimmy lee dykes, was killed. two explosives were also found

near the scene. sources reveal the fbi got a camera inside the bunker and made their move when jimmy lee dykes began carrying a gun. little ethan is back with his family and will celebrate his 6th birthday tomorrow. new questions to night about the partial blackout during the super bowl. and among those questions are when did officials know there could be problems in the stadium. and, whether enough was done ahead of time to prevent any issues. jim handley with a few answers. >> reporter: jim tonight we are learning there were concerns about a power everload at the super dome months before sunday's big game. tests done on electrical feeders inside the stadium show decay and chance of failure. super dome engineers shared this information with the state back in october. in december the state spent close to $600,000 to upgrade those decaying lines. the nfl tonight says they were aware of the upgrades and right now doesn't appear sunday's

outage was connected to the repairs. another thing, officials ruled out today, beyonce's halftime show. she used her own generator because of power concerns during her rehearsals. plenty of power flowing through the streets today. tens of thousand showing up for the ravens' victory parade. the team made it from city hall to the bank stadium where there were so many fans, police had to close the gates. this afternoon, president obama called head coach john harbaugh to congratulate the team. and formally invite them to the white house. as the for next year's super bowl there, have been rumors floating around today there would not be a halftime show. the game will be held at met life stadium in east rutherford, new jersey. the first time a game will be held in an open-air arena in a cold weather climate. well today the nfl is debunking rumors. a spokesman called them erroneous. he says says there will be both a pregame and halftime show at met life stadium next year.

jim, doreen, back to you. >> thank you. to our weather. calm out there tonight. there could be some changes come friday. storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer lets us know what we can expect around here next. hey, doug. >> you are right. calm over the next couple days. i think we need it. we had a lot going on. cold temperatures have been here. seen the snow showers, flurries. yesterday, today. things on the calmer side. that will last. look at the shot. i love this shot of the capital. looking nice. high of 42. low of, right now, 37. 34 degrees. the current number is 37. we did see large temperature range across the region. by that, nearly 20 degree difference. between areas to the north. 34. 37. fredericksburg at 55 degrees. they broke out sunshine. folks to south enjoy aid nice day. while the rest of us are socked in with the cloud and snow showers and some sprinkles around town. that's exactly what we are seeing right there. 37 degrees.

wind out of the north at 3 miles an hour. so we are calm. actually milder, than we normally are. 11:00 at night. middle of february. beginning of february. right now, storm team 4 radar showing a few showers. these are both of the snow variety and shower variety. we continue to see these moving across the region. we will continue to see these over the next few hours. these are very light. most of us won't see anything at all. will not amount to anything. you didn't have tu weo worry ab it. clipper system. many over the past couple days. continues across our region. as the it moves on out of here. something nice tomorrow. something we haven't seen a whole lot of. the clipper. future weather showing. going to see sunshine. not just of a little sunshine. i think tomorrow. plenty of sunshine. that will help boost temperatures up into the mid 40s for the most part. some of you, especially done to the south. make it to 50 again. tomorrow will be cooler. thursday. everybody on the cooler side. cloud move back in. the cloud move back in. they're moving out.

ahead of, our next storm system which is a coastal storm. going to watch the storm closely. if it stays further off the coast. not as big of a storm. further inland. could produce rain and maybe a lot of snow back toward the west. once again it this one will be one be are watching closely here at nbc 4. tomorrow morning. tomorrow afternoon. mostly sunny. belter day. temperatures, 42, to 46 degrees. ,000 not b not bad at all. next few days high of 43. 47 friday. good chance of rain. then the weekend. not bad. 44 on saturday. sunday. looking very nice with a high of 50 degrees. nice and mild. plenty of sunshine a nother chance of ran monday. once again, it is going to be friday we're watching. possible snow, ice. well to the west. especially on the onset of this storm. main low rain though for most of us. and once again, could be possibly heavy if it does take more inland look. so we will continue to watch that for you. right now. the biggest thing i want to show you is that weekend. because we need to see a good weekend around here.

we haven't seen one with both days seeing sunshine. looks like we could see that this week. >> all right. something to look forward to. >> i am. >> thank you.

okay. they played hockey tonight. tell me good news. >> wish i could, man. >> again. >> starting to get ugly. ten gail. eight losses. the biggest problem, the capitals have shown zero improvement since the season started. it's not over. they played 20% of the games this shortened season. the washington capitals.

your washington capitals, in sole possession of last place in the national hockey league. the littlest caps fans. sequester of hearing about losing. scoreless. midway through. and back to get the puck. there is a big time miscommunication. steals. and scores. take another look. and, catches the caps. now this is inexcusable. 1-0. toronto on top. later. caps down 2-0. on the power play. find johannsen. all right. caps back in it. and first goal of the season. caps down 2-1. good times wouldn't last long. same score. second period. and from the point. beats him. his first career goal. proves to be the difference. leafs win it. 3-2, the capitals, 2, 7, 1 on the season. >> i think everyone is frustrated. we are not winning games.

that's what we are here for. what everybody wants to do. and you know, of course, it is frustrating and tough. but you know what we have to battle through and find a way to when the games. >> one ravens' official said they were expect 30,000 for their parade. got it and 170,000 more. more than 200,000 fans packed the streets and the stadiumen baltimore to celebrate the ravens second super bowl in franchise history. people everywhere in baltimore to day. jamming the streets to welcome home super bowl champions. the mvp. joe flacco. suggs saidness was beyond his wildest dreams. and the stadium at full capacity. the police closed the gates to see people scaling the fences. those enside got treated to ray's last squirrel dance. our jason pew was there and caught up with a few happy ravens. >> really great. i don't know if there is word

for it. awe the word you can think of. amazing, in incredible. magnificent. the crowd. stadium full beyond capacity. fire marshals closed it off. >> you played college ball. to win a super bowl for the ravens. >> unreal. i'm in the organization i want to be a part of. a small piece of the puzzle. just thankful to be part of it. we got it done. >> this team was destined to go on to win the super bowl. i said, this is my last ride. and every moment, every time i have ever stepped in this stadium, what i receive was pure love. ray sounded a little hoarse there. >> makes sense. >> i love smith. what kind of humility. small piece of the puzzle. give me a break. >> fast piece of the puzzle.

interesting. capitals good morning tonight. they had a promotion for our -- our brothers and sisters at comcast sports net. they showed the ravens parade on the jumbotron. there were a lot of boos ringing the arena. they showed the ravens parade. washington, d.c. the they want a redskins parade. >> well, fine. talking about the raven dinner's ready.

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